Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights

Written Briefings Received by the Committee

Due to COVID-19, it was not possible for the Ad Hoc Committee to conduct its usual meetings, it progressed work by seeking written briefings from witnesses. Submissions received by the Committee as a result can be found below:

Date Published	Submission	Author
7 May 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights(PDF,1 page, 13KB)	Churches
29 April 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights(PDF, 9 pages,574KB)	Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
29 April 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights(PDF,10 pages, 152KB)	Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
29 April 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights(PDF,35 pages,557KB)	Children's Law Centre
15 April 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights(PDF,7pages, 268KB)	Conradh na Gaeilge
15 April 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights(PDF,11pages,423KB)	Louise Mallinder
25 March 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights(PDF,14pages,434KB)	Niall Murphy
18 March 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights (PDF, 14 pages,466KB).	Irish Congress of Trade Unions
11 March 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights (PDF, 14 pages, 324KB).	Equality Commission for NI
11 March 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights (PDF, 33 pages, 1480KB)	Professor Monica McWilliams
4 March 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights (PDF, 12 pages, 533KB)	Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
23 February 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights (document to follow subject to appropriate redactions)	Dr Robin Wilson
11 February 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights (PDF, 6 pages, 147KB).	NIWEP
3 February 2021	Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights (PDF, 10 pages, 456KB)	Lady Trimble
1 February 2021	Submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights	Jeffrey Dudgeon MBE
28 January 2021	Model Bill of Rights	Professor Colin Harvey
26 January 2021	Notes on Human Rights AND culture and a Culture OF Human Rights	Dominic Bryan, Michael Hamilton and Neil Jarman
20 January 2021	Ad Hoc Committee on Bill of Rights Working Paper Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (PDF, 9 pages, 37.3KB)	Dermot Nesbitt
18 December 2020	Notes for the Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights	Sir Stephen Irwin, former Lord Justice of Appeal of England and Wales
18 December 2020	Bill of Rights	Sir John Gillen, former Lord Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland
14 December 2020	Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights: Briefing note	The Bar of Northern Ireland
8 December 2020	Getting to Yes on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland	Brice Dickson, Emeritus Professor of the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
November 2020	Brexit and its Wider Implications for Human Rights in Northern Ireland	Professor Colm O’Cinneide, UCL
November 2020	Written Evidence from Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) to the Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland	Brian Gormally and Dr Anne Smith
6 November 2020	Economic and Social Rights: Models of Enforceability	The Human Rights Centre, Queen's University, Belfast
23 October 2020	Written Evidence to the NI Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on the Bill of Rights	Daniel Holder, Deputy Director of the Committee on the Administration of Justice and Patricia McKeown, Regional Secretary of UNISON , Co-Conveners of the Equality Coalition
15 October 2020	Written submission to the Ad Hoc Committee on Bill of Rights	Mark Durkan, former deputy First Minister and a negotiator for the SDLP during the multi-party talks leading to the Belfast Agreement
15 October 2020	Written submission to the Ad Hoc Committee on Bill of Rights	Dermot Nesbitt, former Minister of the Environment and a negotiator for the UUP during the multi-party talks leading to the Belfast Agreement
9 October 2020	What the Bill of Rights was intended to achieve for Northern Ireland	Professor Tom Hadden, Honorary Professor at the University of Kent, Professor Emeritus at Queen's University Belfast School of Law and Visiting Scholar at Ulster University's Transitional Justice Institute
5 October 2020	A Northern Ireland Bill of Rights	Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
25 September 2020	Human Rights and Peacebuilding	Dr. Amanda Cahill-Ripley, Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool and Visiting Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Bergen, Norway
21 September 2020	Comparative International and Devolved Best Practice	Dr Katie Boyle, Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Stirling
23 June 2020	The South African Bill of Rights: a briefing	Professor Kate O’Regan, inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court
23 June 2020	Briefing to the Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights	The Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY)
9 June 2020	The implementation of international treaty standards into devolved law – the example of Scotland	Tobias Lock, Professor of Law at Maynooth University
4 June 2020	Further note on the difference between the Human Rights Act and the proposals of the NIHRC for an NI Bill of Rights	Dominic Grieve QC
4 June 2020	Derogation from Human Rights Briefing Paper	Dominic Grieve QC
18 May 2020	Human Rights in Wales	Simon Hoffman, Professor of Law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University